RECALLING Article 15(j) of the Convention on the International
Maritime Organization concerning the functions of the Assembly in
relation to regulations and guidelines concerning maritime safety,
RECOGNIZING the need to prepare performance standards for
shipborne radio equipment to ensure operational reliability and suitability
of equipment used for safety purposes,
NOTING that Regulation IV/14.1 of
the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974 (SOLAS),
as amended, requires all equipment to which chapter IV of the Convention
applies to conform to appropriate performance standards not inferior
to those adopted by the Organization,
NOTING ALSO that SOLAS Regulation
V/12(r) requires all shipborne navigational equipment installed
on ships on or after 1 September 1984 to conform to appropriate performance
standards not inferior to those adopted by the Organization,
HAVING CONSIDERED the recommendation made by the Maritime
Safety Committee at its fifty-ninth session,
1. ADOPTS the Recommendation on General Requirements
for Shipborne Radio Equipment Forming Part of the Global Maritime
Distress and Safety System (GMDSS) and for Electronic Navigational
Aids set out in the annex to the present resolution;
2. RECOMMENDS Governments to ensure that shipborne
radio equipment forming part of the GMDSS and shipborne electronic
navigational aids conform to performance standards not inferior to
those specified in the annex to the present resolution;
3. REVOKES resolutions A.569(14) and A.574(14);
4. DECIDES that any reference to resolutions A.569(14)
or A.574(14) in existing IMO instruments be read as a reference to
the present resolution.